Charles Fessenden Morse

Charles Fessenden Morse (22 September 1839-11 December 1926) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Charles Fessenden Morse was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 22 September 1839, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1858 with a bachelor of science degree; one of his classmates and friends was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. In 1861, he joined the 2nd Massachusetts regiment when the American Civil War broke out, and he became captain of its Company B. He fought at South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment after Gettysburg. Morse served as Provost Marshal of Atlanta after William T. Sherman's army took the city in 1864, and he kept strict order in the ruined city. After the war, he entered the railroad business in the American West, and he lived in Kansas City, Missouri from 1878 to 1913, when he retired to Falmouth, Massachusetts; he died there in 1926 at the age of 87.